* 1861 – Stanislas de Guaita, French occultist ( d. 1897 )

* 1897 – Humberto Mauro, Brazilian director and screenwriter ( d. 1983 )

Australia resoundingly won the 1897 – 98 series by 4 – 1 under the captaincy of Harry Trott.

* 1897 – Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states adjacent to India's North West Frontier Province.

* 1897 – Karl-Otto Koch, German SS officer ( d. 1945 )

* 1897 – Max Weber, Swiss politician ( d. 1974 )

* 1897 – Jandamarra, Indigenous-Australian resistance leader ( b. c. 1873 )

* 1897 – Franco-Hova Wars: The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.

* 1897 – Maurice Fernandes, Guyanese cricketer ( d. 1981 )

During the Invasion of the Kuril Islands, Akira Nakamura ( b. 1897 ) was captured by the Soviet army and his elder son Takeshi Nakamura ( 1925 – 1945 ) was killed in the battle.

), Prosopographia Imperii Romani, 3 vol., Berlin, 1897 – 1898.

* 1897 – Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.

* 1897 – The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.

* 1897 – The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.

* 1897 – Ardito Desio, Italian topographer ( d. 2001 )

* 1897 – Claire Windsor, American actress ( d. 1972 )

* 1975 – Fredric March, American actor ( b. 1897 )

* 1994 – Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar ( b. 1897 )

Oldtiden og den ældre Middelalder, pp. 570 – 735 ( Copenhagen, 1897 – 1905 ).

* 1897 – The Aurora, Texas UFO incident

* 1897 – Thornton Wilder, American dramatist ( d. 1975 )

* 1897 – Enid Blyton, English author ( d. 1968 )

* 1897 – Louise Bogan, American poet ( d. 1970 )

* February 21 – Gershom Scholem, German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and historian ( b. 1897 )

For example, Martin Buber drew on Hassidism in articulating his anarchist philosophy, Gershom Scholem was an anarchist and a kabbalah scholar, Walter Benjamin was equally influenced by Marxism and Jewish messianism, Gustav Landauer was a religious Jew and a libertarian communist, Jacob Israël de Haan combined socialism with Haredi Judaism, while left-libertarian Bernard Lazare became a passionately Jewish Zionist in 1897 but wrote 2 years later to Herzl – and by extension to the Zionist Action Committee, " You are bourgeois in thoughts, bourgeois in your feelings, bourgeois in your ideas, bourgeois in your conception of society .".

Gerhard Scholem who, after his immigration from Germany to Palestine, changed his name to Gershom Scholem ( Hebrew: גרשם שלום ) ( December 5, 1897 – February 21, 1982 ), was a German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and historian, born and raised in Germany.

* 1897 – Charles Kuentz, German-born French WW1 veteran and centenarian ( d. 2005 )

* January 14 – Douglas Sirk, German-born film director ( b. 1897 )

* Fritz Müller ( 1821 – 1897 ), German-born Brazilian naturalist

* October 27-Albert Fink, German-born American civil engineer and railroad manager ( d. 1897 ).

Franz Josef Kallmann, MD ( July 24, 1897 – May 12, 1965 ), a German-born American psychiatrist, was one of the pioneers in the study of the genetic basis of psychiatric disorders.

In 1897 the school was renamed Jeppestown Grammar School after the German-born philanthropist Sir Julius Jeppe.

* January 4 – Dvora Netzer, Israeli politician ( b. 1897 )

Paul Ben-Haim ( or Paul Ben-Chaim, Hebrew: פאול בן חיים ‎) ( 5 July 1897 – 14 January 1984 ) was an Israeli composer.

* Simcha Blass, ( 1897 – 1982 ), Israeli water engineer, inventor of drip irrigation systems

* Golda Meir ( 1897 – 1978 ), Israeli politician

The US philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce praised Cantor's set theory, and, following public lectures delivered by Cantor at the first International Congress of Mathematicians, held in Zurich in 1897, Hurwitz and Hadamard also both expressed their admiration.

* 1897 – Georges Bataille, French philosopher and writer ( d. 1962 )

The nineteenth century French pioneer sociologist Émile Durkheim borrowed the word from French philosopher Jean-Marie Guyau and used it in his influential book Suicide ( 1897 ), outlining the social ( and not individual ) causes of suicide, characterized by an absence or diminution of standards or values ( referred to as normlessness ), and an associated feeling of alienation and purposelessness.

* Kenneth Burke ( 1897 – 1993 ), Cultural and literary critic and philosopher ; Harry and Tom Chapin's grandfather.

The original ideas of process theology were developed by Charles Hartshorne ( 1897 – 2000 ), and influenced a number of Jewish theologians, including British philosopher Samuel Alexander ( 1859 – 1938 ), and Rabbis Max Kadushin, Milton Steinberg and Levi A. Olan, Harry Slominsky, and Bradley Shavit Artson.

Henry Calderwood ( 10 May 1830 – 19 November 1897 ), Scottish philosopher and divine, was born at Peebles.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj ( April 17, 1897 – September 8, 1981 ), born Maruti Shivrampant Kambli, was an Indian spiritual teacher and philosopher of Advaita ( Nondualism ), and a Guru, belonging to the Inchgiri branch of the Navnath Sampradaya.

Karl Löwith ( January 9, 1897 – May 26, 1973 ), was a German philosopher, a student of Heidegger.

Kenneth Duva Burke ( May 5, 1897 – November 19, 1993 ) was a major American literary theorist and philosopher.

** Nishi Amane ( 西 周, 1829 – 1897 ), philosopher

* Amane Nishi ( 西周, 1829 – 1897 ) Japanese philosopher

Edward Flanders Robb Ricketts ( May 14, 1897 – May 11, 1948 ) commonly known as Ed Ricketts, was an American marine biologist, ecologist, and philosopher.

* William Wallace ( philosopher ) ( 1844 – 1897 ), Scottish philosopher

Béla Hamvas ( 23 March 1897 – 7 November 1968 ) was a Hungarian writer, philosopher, and social critic.

Under Rainis and Stučka -- the latter was again editor in 1896-97 -- Dienas Lapa turned to socialism ; shut down by the Ministry of the Interior in 1897, the paper took a moderate turn under the editorship of the philosopher and publicist Pēteris Zālīte ( formerly an editor of Mājas Viesis -- see the Young Latvians article ) between 1899 and 1903 ; despite its moderation under Zālīte, the paper was again shut down by the censors, re-emerging in 1905 as the Social Democratic newspaper before its permanent closure.

* Paul Yorck von Wartenburg ( philosopher, 1835 – 1897 )